Labor Day Weekend

I hope you all had a good Labor Day weekend. We had a great one here in the Hooks' household! Liz and David (Bama and Popi according to Lily), came to visit which is always a treat. David spent most of the weekend moving furniture with Ryan and painting Lily's new "big girl" room. Ryan and I had picked a bedding set for Lily, and David matched the paint to one of the shades of purple in the design. He then added a cool design on the ceiling that we like a lot. Now we just have to find time to get Lily's new furniture (thanks to Bama and Aunt Kendall for donating your former wicker bedroom set!) over here from Birmingham!

Lily loves the new room. She keeps saying "Popi. Paint. Paple." (trying to say purple) and then she'll point to herself and say "Lily!" I think that's her way of saying Popi painted a purple room for her! We'll be in the den reading a book, and we'll come across something purple. She'll say "Paple!" and then point (or run to) the purple room. We'll see how she does once it's time to actually move her over there, but hopefully this is a good sign!

While David did a lot of manual labor (thank you!), Liz did the role of grandmother and fantastic mother-in-law wonderfully! She would get Lily out of bed in the morning allowing Ryan and me to sleep in; I had forgotten how great it feels to wake up and realize I didn't have to get out of bed right that moment to get Lily. Quick side-note...Ryan got up before me on Saturday and brought me breakfast-in-bed; how wonderful is he! Back to the awesomeness of Liz...she kept Lily on Monday morning so I could go to my office and get some work done, and on Sunday morning so Ryan and I could go to church, lunch and do some shopping. She made us a delicious dinner one evening and treated us to dinner another night. She even picked up after Lily and insisted I take it easy (which in all honesty, I didn't mind at all). Personally, I most appreciate the time we spent together at Nail First as she treated me to a much-needed pedicure. Like I said...what a wonderful grandmother and mother-in-law!

It was so nice to have such a relaxing long weekend. A big thank-you to Liz and David for all their hard work this weekend!

Below are some pictures of the room before David started painting, one after the painting was finished, a close-up of the ceiling corner, and Lily and Bama playing together.